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    "description": "An Observer Best Debut of the Year<br />\u2018Oozes with erotic tension from the start\u2019 Sarah Winman, author of Still Life<br />\u2018Sublime \u2026 I loved this book\u2019 Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea<br />\u2018Tense and taut and exhilarating\u2019 Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually<br />\u2018I\u2019ve completely fallen for the astonishing Mrs S\u2019 Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl<br />Powerfully sensual and sublimely stylish, Mrs S is a tale of queer love that smoulders with the heat of summer.<br />In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of \u2018matron\u2019. Within this landscape of immense privilege, in which the girls can sense the slightest weakness in those around them, she finds herself unsure of her role, her accent and her body.<br />That is until she meets Mrs S, the headmaster\u2019s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite: assured, sophisticated, a paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless heatwave, the matron finds herself irresistibly drawn ever closer into Mrs S\u2019s world and their unspoken desire blooms into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer begins to fade, both women know that a choice must be made.<br />K Patrick\u2019s portrait of the butch experience is revelatory; exploring the contested terrain of our bodies, our desires and the constraints society places around both. Mrs S marks the arrival of a major new literary talent, unlike any other.<br />\u2018The intense physicality of the novel\u2019s emotions and its stylish, stripped-back prose make for an arresting pairing\u2019 Observer<br />\u2018Taut with anticipation through the final line\u2019 Lillian Fishman, author of Acts of Service<br />\u2018An extraordinary novel\u2019 Marina Kemp, author of Nightingale<br />\u2018Reading Mrs S is a delicious experience\u2019 Rupert Thomson, author of Never Anyone But You",
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